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Screening of Patients at Risk for Familial Pancreatic Cancer: What Is Beneficial?
The Surgical clinics of North America - 1 Feb 2018
Torphy Robert J, Schulick Richard D
Abstract excerpt
Family history is a significant risk factor for developing pancreatic cancer and this hereditary risk can be secondary to familial cancer predisposition syndromes, hereditary pancreatitis, or familial pancreatic cancer. Certain high-risk individuals are recommended to undergo screening for pancreatic cancer with endoscopic ultrasound or MRI/magnetic resonance retrograde cholangiopancreatography because of the...
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